Joan Ardiaca Jové

About Me

Born and raised in Barcelona, I'm fascinated by computers since a young age.
As an already self-taught developer, I studied both sociology (specialized in education and culture) and computer engineering at different universities.
I am a perpetual learner, a tinkerer, a hacker. If I could take only one book to a desert island, it would probably be a printed version of wikipedia (although that would probably be cheating).

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

This Master taught me subjects in social sciences like anthropology, demographics, social structures, history, political science, sociology of religion and psychology, but also more general ones like methodology in sciences, statistics and epistemology.

Deutsche Schule Barcelona

Abitur & Selectividad•June 2006

As a foreign school in Barcelona, it offers schooling in German, allowing it's students to graduate in both the German and Spanish secondary school systems.

Professional

Mister Spex GmbH

Developer in DevOps team•March 2015 to current day

Having already worked in this company I could directly join in the DevOps team, working on the production, staging and testsystems and improving the workflows of the development teams.

Mister Spex GmbH is the world's leading online optician.

Mister Spex GmbH (again)

C++ Developer •May 2012 - April 2014

I started as a backend developer, but soon also took over the administration of production and testing systems, deployment and release processes and was a member of the IT Security Team.

Fundació Pere Tarrés

Practical training •October 2009 - April 2010

Six months practical training in applied research in this foundation centered on education in leisure for teens and children.

Alpec S.A.

Freelance Web development •October - December 2008

In a team of two we designed and developed a new website for this small logistics company, including a simple CMS.

Ràdio Gelida

Freelance Web development •April - September 2008

In a team of three we designed and developed a new website for this local radio station, including a custom CMS.

Festina S.A.

Freelance Web development •October 2007 - February 2008

In a team of four we designed and developed a promotional website called Club Lotus, consisting of a social network for the company's clients.

Festina S.A. is a spanish watches company, present in over 70 countries and owner of brands like Lotus and Jaguar watches.

Awards

Jugend forscht (youth researches)

State competition Nordrhein-Westfalen •2006

Second prize in the subject CS with the project "Program for the Visualization of Equilibrium Chemical Reactions". Team of two.

Jugend forscht is a German youth science competition with over 10,000 participants anually, the largest youth science and technology competition in Europe.

Jugend forscht (youth researches)

Regional competition Iberian Peninsula •2005

First prize in the subject CS with the project "Program for the Visualization of Equilibrium Chemical Reactions" plus special prize of tho weeks internship in the research center Jülich. Team of two.

Languages

Born in the bilingual city of Barcelona, I speak both Spanish and Catalan natively. Having learned German and English from a young age allows me to speak both languages fluently.

Catalan - native

Spanish - native

German - fluent

English - fluent

Programming

The languages we use to tell computers what to do, each being unique. I don't think
I will ever truly master most languages, as there are always new things to learn and
different ways to get to the same goal.

I have omitted some languages in this list in which I have exprierience but I
do not expect to use again, like Pascal or Visual Basic, and those in which I have minimal experience, like Haskell, Julia and R.

Assembly

(Ba)sh

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

PHP

Python

SQL

Skills

Below some of the skills I trained and used professionally and worth highlighting are listed.

Agile Methodologies

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Databases

DevOps

Linux system administration

Microcontroller programming

PCI-DSS

Statistics & data analysis

System and application monitoring

Test-driven development

Version control (Git, SVN, CVS)

Web development

Check Out Some of My Works.

Red Federica Montseny website & server

Red Federica Montseny is an international movement that was born as an opposition to the abortion law reform proposal in Spain. I set up a server with Postfix, Courier, Apache, Django CMS, MySQL and Murmur.

Oficina Precaria Berlín

Oficina Precaria Berlín is a Berlin based organization linked to the 15M movement that helps spanish immigrants with common paperwork, insurances, finding a job and even legal assistance for free. It is a Wordpress based site with a customized theme.

Open source projects

Testimonials

Mr. Ardiaca always offered a very high work readiness and an exemplary
understanding of duty. He was always able and ready to perform additional
and also difficult tasks. Tasks assigned to him were taken care of in a
very reliable, goal-oriented and fast-paced way. Even under difficult
work conditions were his results of very high quality.

Hannes Schrödter, Mister Spex head of IT

Mr. Ardiaca always did take care of tasks assigned to him to our
full satisfaction. Mr. Ardiaca was highly considered by his superiors and colleages as a diligent and friendly co-worker. His engagement, his
willingness to both learning and duty and his permanent drive to further
develop himself have to be highlighted extraordinarily.